AI doesn’t run a school, and it knows neither your students nor your teams. It takes part of the writing off your plate: staff memos, meeting minutes, reading official circulars, planning tables for the new school year.
AI helps school principals with tasks such as “Write the weekly staff memo,” “Pull the action items out of a circular,” and “Write the governing board minutes.” Start with a single task, in Mistral Vibe: allow 10 minutes the first time, and always review the result before you use it.
For each task: how it goes today, then with the tool. And the time it takes the first time.
Mistral Vibe · “Canvas”
TodayEvery Friday, you have to pull the calendar, the reminders, and the deadlines into a memo everyone will actually read.
With Mistral VibeA clear, dated one-page memo, to review and then send out.
Gemini Notebook · An “Official texts” notebook
TodayThe back-to-school circular, memos from the education authority, guides: dozens of pages every month, and the instruction that matters is on page 14.
With Gemini NotebookA table of actions to take, with the deadline and the passage of the text to check.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
TodayThree hours of meeting, pages of notes, and minutes to format while everything else piles up.
With ClaudeDraft minutes in Word, item by item, for the meeting secretary to review.
Also
Claude · Excel file, in the conversation
A spreadsheet that sets your needs against the allocation and recalculates the margin with each assumption.
Gamma · “Paste”
A plain presentation, one idea per slide, exported as a PowerPoint or a PDF.
Mistral Vibe · “Temporary Chat”
A calm, factual draft letter, to complete with the names and sign.
Tally · “Create with AI”
An anonymous online survey whose results feed the self-evaluation or the school plan.
Mistral Vibe · Excel or CSV file, in the conversation
A table, a chart, and five questions to open the discussion at the teaching council.
A speech of a few minutes, written to be spoken, to rework in your own words.
Claude · Word file, in the conversation
A job posting, a job description, and an interview guide, to approve with the dean of students.
All 10 use cases on this page are in Nova, each with its steps and its prompt.
Try the interactive demoWhat to check
No student names and no staff member’s personal situation in the memo or in the assistant. Check every date: a mistake spreads to the whole team.
Write the weekly staff memoMistral Vibe · “Canvas”The prompt to copy
Help me write the weekly staff memo for my [middle school, high school], for the week of [date]. Here are my rough notes: [calendar, meetings, planned absences, deadlines, reminders, thanks]. Write a one-page memo, in this order: the week’s calendar day by day, what needs to be done with the deadline and the person to contact, things to know, a word from the principal in two sentences. Short sentences, no bureaucratic style, one piece of information per line. Write dates and times out in full. Do not mention any student. Add nothing I haven’t noted: if a date or a place is missing, write [to be confirmed].
In Nova, “My path” starts from your level: one next step at a time.
The first moves, with free tools.
In your jobWrite the weekly staff memo
In your jobRead exam results
In your jobPrepare the resource allocation table
In your jobPull the action items out of a circular
For a team: everyone moves forward in their own job. You see the team’s progress, never one person’s activity.
A French assistant, with servers in Europe and a temporary conversation: for the weekly memo, a sensitive letter to a family, or reading a results table.
Recommended planFree, with a limit on the number of messages. Then: Pro, €14.99 per month, excl. tax (€17.99 on the French App Store).
For long documents: the governing board minutes from your notes, the resource allocation table in Excel, a speech.
Recommended planFree to start. Pro, $20 per month ($17 per month if billed yearly).
You add the circulars, the school rules, and the school plan: it answers by showing the passage, and can turn them into an audio summary.
Recommended planFree: 100 notebooks, 50 sources per notebook, 50 questions per day.
Your notes become a clear presentation for the governing board, the pre-term staff meeting, or sixth-grade parents’ night.
Recommended planFree, $0, to try it: 400 credits that do not refill. Then: Plus, €8 per user per month, billed yearly (€96).
An anonymous survey for families or staff, built by describing it, from a Belgian vendor that hosts data in Europe.
Recommended planFree, $0.
Prices taken from the vendors’ official pages, dated on each tool page. These subscriptions are not included in Nova. Brands are named to identify the tools. No affiliation.
Nova recommends 5 to start with: Mistral Vibe, Claude, Gemini Notebook, Gamma, and Tally. All of them can be used for free to get started.
A French assistant, with servers in Europe and a temporary conversation: for the weekly memo, a sensitive letter to a family, or reading a results table. The plan to choose: Free, with a limit on the number of messages. Then: Pro, €14.99 per month, excl. tax (€17.99 on the French App Store).
With “Write the weekly staff memo,” in Mistral Vibe (“Canvas”). Allow 10 minutes the first time. A clear, dated one-page memo, to review and then send out.
No. Nova is software, not an accredited training provider: it issues no diploma or certification. It costs €19 per month for one person, and €129 per month for a team of up to ten people.